Card-holder.



S. FREEMAN.

CARD HOLDER.

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993,6744 PaLentedMayaO, 1911.

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canti-'nonnina To all whom it may concernf Be it known that I, SAMUEL FREEMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oakland, in the county of Kennebec and State of Maine havel invented a new and useful Card-Holder, of which ythe following is a specification.

vThis-invention relates to ca-rd holders and is more particularly designed -for holding index cards orl sli s such as used now for example, upon the ront ends of trays, drawers or the like containing talking machine records.

It has been customary, for merchants who handle cylinders of talking machines, to

store them in drawers or trays, there being several different cylinders within each tray, each cylinder being indicated by a designating number. As these cylinders` are removed and others substituted, it has heretofore been necessary to paste slips of paper or the like upon the front end of the tray and `to write or to otherwise indicate upon the slips the numbers of the cylinders contained within the trays. lThis of course, has produced an unsightly tray. v

One ofthe objectsof the invention is to -i provide a slip holder designed to be secured l'so to the front end-of a trayl of this type and .which is provided with means whereby a se# .ries of slips can be placed therein, it being possible to independently remove these slips whereby changes can be made in the holder whenever the contents of the tray are changed and without4 marring .the appearance of the front of the tray. j

Another object is to provide a holder of this type which is simple in' construction cheap to manufacture, land which canl be readily applied to a tray or other supporting structure;

' With these and other objects .in view the invention consists incertain novel details of construction and combinations of parts' hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claim. j

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown:

In said drawings,-Figure l is a perspective view of a-tray having a holder such as constitutes the present invention, applied to the front end thereof.` Fig. 2 is an enlarged front elevation of the holder, the slips being removed therefrom. Fig. 3 is an enishowing slips in position therein.

specimen of Letters Patent. Application led Ianuary 29, 1910. Serial No.I 540,880.

lariged vertical section through the holderan pli . Patented May 30, 1911.

Referring to the figures by characters ci l reference a-designates a tray of .that t pe esfpecially designed to hold recordcylin ers o The holder constituting., the resent invention isadapted to be ap-..` ed) to the front end of this tray and consists of a plate 1' having prongs 2 struckv 4 from the end portions thereof and designed '65 phonograph's.

to be pressed into 'or through the front end of the tray and, if ossible, to be bent so as to prevent the `hol er from being acciden- .l

tally disconnected from the tray. A sup port-in flan e 3 is formed along the' lower edge o the p ate .1 and is bent upwardly and formed alongV the sides of theplate are inwardly directed retaining fianges 4 arranged in series, and all but the uppermost flange of each series being bent outwardly as indicated at 5 so as to leave a sufficient space between the meeting'ends ofv adjoining flanges to per .mit theV insertion therebetween of the end portions of slips to be supported within the holder. Supporting or spacing lugs 6 are struck from the plate 1 between the flanges 4, these lugs being preferably disposed substantially in alinement-.with the outturned ends 5 of the flanges.

In using the holder herein described the prongs 2 are pressed into the supporting structure and a slip bcan then-be placed inthe holder. Each of these slips is preferably of la Vwidth equal-to the length of each ofthe anges 4, the length of each slip being equal to. the distance between the side edges of the plate l. The slip is placed between the lower flanges 4 by inserting its ends between the outturned ends 5 of said flanges and the lower ends of the next adjoining flanges. The said slips can then be slid downward between the plate l and the Hanges 4 and until its lower edge assumes a position upon the supporting flange 3. The upper edge portion of the slip b will thus rest upon the lugs 6 and be held thereby out of contact'with the body portion of 6 and is supported by them. This operation can be continued until the holder has been filled, it being understoodthat while the- Hangs 3 supports the lowermost slip, theV ears 6 constitute supports` for the remaining slips andalso serve to hold adjoining slips spaced apart along their meeting By thus spacing apart the lslips 1t becomes possible to readily grasp the upper edge of any one of them and to slide it upwardly out of engagement with its holding anges. Obviously, any one of theslips can therefore be readily removed without displacing the remaining slips and l.another slip can beportions.

fcing any of the advantages of the invention as defined in the appended claim.

A card holder consistin ofv a plate, a series of sepa-rated inwar ly directed retaining fianges along each side of the plate, each flange being inclineddownwardly toward the plate and all of the flanges lying parallel, and lugs outstanding from the plate between the upper ends of the flanges, each lug constituting means for limiting the downward movement of acard thereabove,

therebelow away from the plate.

In'testimony that I cla-im the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aiiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

. SAMUEIJ FREEMAN.

Witnesses: A

P. S. Donsnr, G. lSrANLnirl REYNOLDS.

and for spacing the upper edge'of the card 

